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Review of Ozomatli at the Fillmore 12/2/05
Dec. 3rd, 2005 12:12 pmI did, in fact, go to see Ozomatli last night, despite minor travails like "not having a ticket to a sold-out show." ( how I found one, the opening band )
Ozomatli was great. "Well, duh," moment for me: of course their music is bright and good... They use brass! I was right in front of the trombonist. Imagine Jayne, as a trombonist in a rock band. Same look, same sense of fun... With his dancing he said, "Oh dear! My boobs are showing!"
Audience ESP: You don't have boobs, trombonist-who-looks-like-Adam-Baldwin.
Jayne-with-a-Trombone: Then I'm ok to bounce up and down now?
A-ESP: Heh. You're funny. And cute.
( more on the band )
Most neat thing: they uniquely scotched the irritating encore thing... As they were playing their last song on the stage, they started one by one handing down drums and instruments and hopping into the audience, whence they paraded to the center of the floor and played, and then played a conga-line parade all over the floor, and then finished up over in a corner many minutes later, filtering right though the whole stirred happy crowd when they finally stopped. Great idea. So neat. Also, hanging by the stage as they played Sesame Street in the center, I thought about water, and then looked over to see that on their way down they'd kicked a stage bottle right into hand's reach. Saved!
They also quoted Fiddler on the Roof, an oldies song I don't remember, probably many other things I didn't connect, and at one point they reminded me precisely of Dead Can Dance.
Good show. ;)
Ozomatli was great. "Well, duh," moment for me: of course their music is bright and good... They use brass! I was right in front of the trombonist. Imagine Jayne, as a trombonist in a rock band. Same look, same sense of fun... With his dancing he said, "Oh dear! My boobs are showing!"
Audience ESP: You don't have boobs, trombonist-who-looks-like-Adam-Baldwin.
Jayne-with-a-Trombone: Then I'm ok to bounce up and down now?
A-ESP: Heh. You're funny. And cute.
( more on the band )
Most neat thing: they uniquely scotched the irritating encore thing... As they were playing their last song on the stage, they started one by one handing down drums and instruments and hopping into the audience, whence they paraded to the center of the floor and played, and then played a conga-line parade all over the floor, and then finished up over in a corner many minutes later, filtering right though the whole stirred happy crowd when they finally stopped. Great idea. So neat. Also, hanging by the stage as they played Sesame Street in the center, I thought about water, and then looked over to see that on their way down they'd kicked a stage bottle right into hand's reach. Saved!
They also quoted Fiddler on the Roof, an oldies song I don't remember, probably many other things I didn't connect, and at one point they reminded me precisely of Dead Can Dance.
Good show. ;)